The Columbus journal., 1887-12-14

The Fire Store has just received I
full line of clothing,overcoats, underwear
boots, shoes and a full line of gent'
furnishing goods, and are still selling
for 80 cents on the dollar.
p. w. Heinrich and C. J. Carlow
made a trip last week through Platte
Center, Humphrey and Lindsay. Tht
last, Mr.. H. says, is just now prett!
lively little burg, large quantity o1
grain being purchased by dealers.
4 will sell S65OOO worth of propert.
for S35O.OO; 6. e. 4 block Z Oida, worth
$4,000; lots 8 and 4 block 10 Stevens
Addition, worth $4,000, and acres neal
Fair ground. worth s25O.O0 This is bar
gain. Who wants it? L. w. Weaver.
-Mending old skates was the chiei
occupation Of the young lads about town
Saturday, besides some of the lasses
They are looking forward to good times
this winter, and the open air should
certainly be better than skating on roll
ers under a roof.
George n. Crawford, late of Omaha
and John w. Early of this city have
formed partnership as real estate and
commercial brokers', also loan, invest
ment and collection agents room over
First National Bank. The JOURNAL
wishes them success.
Harry Robson was arrested at
Mendoza, ILL.,, but let go again, as the
officers could learn nothing further from
parties here ordering the arrest. He
wrote here to learn what people thought
of him, and to know why he was put
under arrest. Sleek youth.
%. c. Shannon has been appointed
deputy clerk Of the district court fOr
this county, has given bond and entered
upon the duties Of the Office. Ora is a
good penman, and is capable of filling
the Office very creditably to himself and
to the satisfaction of the public.
As We 60 to press, the county su,
pervisors are in session, all present, work
proceeding in good shape Full particu.
lars next issue. The contract for the
Loup bridge was awarded to the King
Bridge Co., of Cleveland, O., at $3S,OO
the bridge to be completed July l, 1888
John Wise and T. NJ. Wilson were
pleasant callers at these headquarters
Saturday, but We wish that some fellow
who has tremendous hard grip would
quietly take hold of Johns hand some
day and squeeze the juice out of it,
just for fun, but We want to be there
to see.
Charles Fuller, formerly of Schuy,
ler. but who for the past two or three
years has been holding down claim six
miles west of here, dropped in on us TO-
day and surprised us. Mr.. Fuller is
assisting d. N. Miner in his carpenter
work here for few days.-tGarfield Co
Quaver.
An old attorney remarked the other
day (after meeting with defeat at court
that his instructor told him when study.
ing for the law that there were two ways
to do when the court went against you
one, to take an appeal; the other, to 60
to the village hotel and talk against the
"jedge." He preferred to take on appeal
-Round-trip tickets will be sold at
the Union Pacific depot, this city, Dec.
23d to Jan. LIST, good for one day going
and to Jan. Sd, '88, to start on return
trip, for Ia fare. These will be honored
on Union Pacific and allied roads within
a radius of 200 miles from Columbus. A
good opportunity to visit friends during
Holidays.
John Wuetrich of Butler township,
narrowly escaped a serious accident Sat
urday while coming to town over the
Loup bridge. Going over the spans
that sunk, he got off with his team, just
as the bridge lowered, and the horses
had to scramble considerably to keep
the weight of the wagon from pulling
them down.
-Sthphen Waggoner has been ap-
pointed shipping agent of the Farmers
Association of this neighborhood; at the
meeting last Saturday the auditing COM
mittee consisting of J. G. Swartsley, J.
H. Drinnin, A. w. Clark, J. Merrill, and
John Watson were appointed to locate a
site for grain warehouse for the As
sociatiOn. The Association adjourned to
meet at the Court House, Dec. 24th.
From the Carlsbad (Cal) Sea Lion
We learn that,-Ira Mullen of National
City is there for the Holidays; G. Schultz
will move into his palatial residence next
week; J. H. Richards. visited some old
Nebraska friends at Pomona; Col 8. C.
Smith and wife are spending this week
in San Diego and National City visiting
friends and relatives and making some
purchases to further beautify their al
ready handsome cottage.
The clerical swindler who conf
denced the Central City bank some
weeks ago was caught in New York by
Pinkerton's detectives. 1t seems that
PinkertOn could make nothing of the
case until he got a description of the
man from newspaper paragraph. He
then recognized an old offender, a man
who had been released from the Illinois
state penitentiary short time since. 1t
is best to publish all such escapades-
give the facts.
In the case of DR.. d. p. Shevlin
against the village of Platte Center for
services during the small pox farce, and
which came up before Judge Cowdery,
of Columbus, a judgment was rendered
in his favor of $500, the plaintiff pay